[PRE REVIEW]: EXP: a Python/C++ package for basis function expansion methods in galactic dynamics

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Submitting author: !--author-handle-->@michael-petersen<!--end-author-handle-- (Michael Petersen) Repository: https://github.com/EXP-code/EXP Branch with paper.md (empty if default branch): Version: v7.7.99 Editor: !--editor-->@dfm<!--end-editor-- Reviewers: Pending Managing EiC: Dan Foreman-Mackey

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Commit count by author:

  4664  Martin D. Weinberg
   937  weinberg
   223  mdw
    66  Martin Weinberg
    40  michael-petersen
    28  michael_petersen
    20  jhchoi
    16  Adrian Price-Whelan
    11  Robert Blackwell
    10  r-j-arnold
     2  Becky Arnold
     1  (no author)
     1  Martin Weinberg [mdw@umass.edu]
     1  Michael
     1  arora125

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Reference check summary (note 'MISSING' DOIs are suggestions that need verification):

OK DOIs

- 10.1051/0004-6361/201629272 is OK
- 10.1051/0004-6361/201832865 is OK
- 10.1051/0004-6361/201322068 is OK
- 10.21105/joss.00388 is OK
- 10.1093/mnras/stad2591 is OK
- 10.1093/mnras/staa3997 is OK
- 10.1093/mnras/stab3639 is OK
- 10.1093/mnras/stad485 is OK
- 10.1038/s41586-020-2649-2 is OK
- 10.1109/MCSE.2007.55 is OK
- 10.1086/300669 is OK
- 10.1109/MCSE.2007.53 is OK
- 10.3233/978-1-61499-649-1-87 is OK
- 10.3847/1538-4357/ac0b44 is OK
- 10.1086/168845 is OK
- 10.1086/171025 is OK
- 10.1086/304888 is OK

MISSING DOIs

- No DOI given, and none found for title: Galactic Dynamics: Second Edition
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Hierarchical data format version 5
- No DOI given, and none found for title: pybind11 – Seamless operability between C++11 and ...
- 10.1198/004017002320256477 may be a valid DOI for title: Analysis of time series structure: SSA and related...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Eigen v3
- No DOI given, and none found for title: CUDA, release: 10.2.89
- No DOI given, and none found for title: MPI: A Message-Passing Interface Standard Version ...

INVALID DOIs

- None

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Paper file info:

📄 Wordcount for paper.md is 1504

✅ The paper includes a Statement of need section

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License info:

🟡 License found: GNU General Public License v3.0 (Check here for OSI approval)

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